The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 biographical film directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. The screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1953 autobiographical account of his historic flight, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. Along with reminiscences of his early days in aviation, the film depicts Lindbergh's historic 33-hour transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis monoplane from his take off at Roosevelt Field to his landing at Le Bourget Field in Paris on May 21, 1927. On May 19, 1927, pilot... Charles A. "Slim" Lindbergh tries to rest in a hotel near Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York. He has been waiting for a week for the rain to stop so he can attempt the first successful nonstop solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. While Lindbergh tries to fall asleep, his friend Frank Mahoney guards his hotel room door from reporters who have also been waiting for a break in the weather. Unable to sleep, Lindbergh reminisces about his former days as an airmail pilot flying over the American Midwest.
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| Release date: | April 20, 1957 |
| Directed by: | Billy Wilder |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Producer: | Leland Hayward |
| Editor: | Arthur P. Schmidt |
| Music by: | Franz Waxman |
| Screenplay by: | Charles Lederer, Billy Wilder, Wendell Mayes |
| Estimated budget: | $6,000,000 |
| Genre: | Action, Biography |